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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: China's Province Names, 1971
" Chinese place names may take on picturesque qualities when rendered in literal translation.
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Wailing Place of the Jews at Jerusalem
In Judaism, the Western Wall is venerated as the sole remnant of the Holy Temple. It has become a place of pilgrimage for Jews, as it is the closest permitted accessible site to the holiest spot in Judaism, namely the Even ha-shetiya or...
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Brooklyn College: The Cell Cycle: Naming the Parts
Use this information to help you understand the differences between major parts of the cell cycle. A good place to start a study of cell division.
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Etc: Maps Etc: England Under the Romans, 55 Bc to Ad 410
A map of England (Britannia) under the Roman Empire, from the time of the first invasion by Julius Caesar (55 BC) to the Roman withdrawal in AD 410. The Roman Period of control of Britannia is generally considered AD 43 to 410. On this...
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Etc: England During the Saxon Period, Ad 450 1066
A map of England, Wales, and southern Scotland during the Saxon Period from around AD 450 to the beginning of the Norman Conquest in 1066. This map shows major cities of the time, major river ways, topography, and is color-coded to show...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Fairfax
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (October 22, 1693 - December 9, 1781). Various place names in Northern Virginia and West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle are named after him-most notably Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Post Wwi Central and Southern Africa, 1920
A map of central and southern Africa in 1920 showing colonial possessions of the British, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Belgians, including the former German colonies, lost after WWI, to French and British control per the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Landforms of Asia, 1904
An outline map from 1904 of Asia showing mountain systems, plateau, plains, major lakes, rivers, coastal features, and seas of the region. This map is used as a key map for locating landform features on a traditional relief map, where...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Australia, 1920
A map of Australia in 1920 showing states and territories, major cities, rivers, mountains, railroads, and steamship routes. Inset maps show Tasmania and New Zealand. This map also has a list of place names with location grid reference...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: British Canada, 1791
A map of eastern Canada in 1791 after the American Revolution, during the formation of British North America and the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada and the Loyalist Upper Canada. The map is color-coded...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Denmark With Schleswig Holstein, 1914
A map of Denmark in 1914 showing Jutland, Zealand, Funen, Laaland (Lolland) Vendsyssel-Thy, Falster and Bornholm, and includes Schleswig-Holstein. This map shows major cities, rivers and coastal features, and ncludes inserts maps of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Hellas, 550 Bc
A map of the Hellenes settlements in 550 BC before the Persian Wars, including the southern Balkan Peninsula, the islands and coastal regions of the Mare Aegaeum (Aegean Sea), the southern tip of the Italian Peninsula and Sicily. This...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Roman Empire Under Augustus, 27 Bc to Ad 14
A map of the extent of the Roman Empire under Augustus (63 BC to AD 14). The map is color-coded to show the territories, and uses Latin place names such as Mare Internum (Mediterranean Sea), Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), and Danubius Fl....
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vinland, 1837
A map from 1837 of the area around Boston, Massachusetts, proposed by Rafn to have been settled by early Norse explorers before the time of Columbus. The map shows the place names described in old Norse mythologies.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Norse America, 861 1285
A facsimile of a map from the works of Carl Christian Rafn (1837) showing Iceland, Greenland, and the eastern portion of North America. The map shows the probable areas of pre-Columbian migration and exploration of the Norse from Iceland...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Ivanhoe, Circa 1150 to 1200
A map illustrating place names and routes of the main characters from Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, set in the time of the Third Crusade and England's Norman Era. The map shows the routes of Cedric, Isaac, and Brian de Bois-Guilbert,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Roman Britain, 55 Bc to Ad 449
A map of England (Britannia) under the Roman Empire, from the time of the first invasion by Julius Caesar (55 BC) extending to the invasion of the Saxons (AD 449). The Roman Period of control of Britannia is generally considered AD 43 to...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Clement Studebaker House
Carriagemaker and founder of H & C Studebaker Company Clement Studebaker lived here from 1889 until his death in 1901. In the 1890s the company was the world's largest producer of horse-drawn vehicles. It later converted into an...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Puteal
Puteal, properly means the enclosure surrounding the opening of a well, to protect persons from falling into it. It was either round or square, and seems usually to have been of the height of three or four feet from the ground. It was...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Quebec, 1613
A facsimile from a map by Samuel Champlain (1613) of the vicinity of Quebec on the St. Lawrence River, where on 3 July, 1608, Champlain laid the foundations of the city which still bears the name of Quebec. The map is keyed to show (A)...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sphinx
Sphinx is a Greek word signifying 'strangler,' applied to certain symbolical forms of Egyptian origin, having the body of a lion, a human or an animal head, and two wings. Various other combinations of animal forms have been called by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tabella
Tabella, a billet or tablet, with which each citizen and judex voted in the comitia and courts of justice. In the comitia, if the business was the passing of a law, each citizen was provided with two tabellae, one inscribed V.R. I vote...
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Science Kids: Science Images: Bezold Effect
The Bezold effect is named after Wilhelm von Bezold, a German professor of meteorology. It is an optical illusion that makes colors look different depending on their relation to adjacent colors. It works with small sections of color...
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Scott Joplin Postage Stamp
A well-organized synopsis from the Northern Virginia Ragtime Society of the history of Ragtime music overviewing its origin, important historical names and dates, and Ragtime's relation to the world of music. Special emphasis is placed...
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